Angels star center fielder Mike Trout is scheduled to testify Tuesday in the trial of the wrongful death civil lawsuit filed by the widow and parents of Tyler Skaggs against the Los Angeles Angels stemming from the pitcher’s fentanyl overdose.

On Monday, the team’s traveling secretary Tom Taylor testified that he was unaware that his longtime co-worker and friend Eric Kay had an illicit drug addiction problem or was peddling pills.

The 27-year-old pitcher was found dead in his hotel room July 1, 2019, while the team was in Texas on a road trip. Kay was convicted in federal court in Texas of providing a fatal dose of fentanyl causing death and is serving a 22-year prison term.

On July 18, 2019, Kay told a co-worker that he had been in the room with Skaggs the night before and that he saw

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